The Health and Wellness Education program is designed to help students acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, processes and confidence needed to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle and select healthy and safe behaviors.  Virginia requires all students to receive health and physical education instruction at all instructional levels in grades K-10.  The program consists of health education, physical education, family life education, and driver education (10th grade).  

 

Hampton City Schools provides a comprehensive health and physical education program envisions the following:

• A well-articulated K-10 comprehensive physical education and health program that prepares all students to actively and effectively achieve and promote lifelong wellness.

• A continuous sequence of learning, firmly rooted in both public health and educational research and effective practice.

• An instructional sequence that provides all students multiple opportunities to use the acquired knowledge and skills in meaningful, authentic, and realistic ways.

• A school community that recognizes and fosters the intrinsic value of wellness.
  

Elementary School

Students in elementary grades receive instruction once per week for 45 minutes.  Health concepts are blended into physical education instruction. 

Middle School

Students in middle school receive instruction every other day for 90 minutes.  Students alternate units of health and physical education.

High School

Students in high school receive instruction every other day for 90 minutes.  Students in high school receive instruction by semester:

• Fall Semester

• Physical Education I - 9th graders

• Health & Driver Education II - 10th graders

• Spring Semester

• Health I - 9th graders

• Physical Education II - 10th graders

 

 

Hampton City Schools Physical Education program follows the 2022 Physical Education Standards of Learning.  Physical education provides students with the knowledge, processes, and skills to become physically educated, physically fit and responsible in their physical activity choices and behaviors for a lifetime. Virginia's standards for physical education are grouped into five strands: skilled movement, movement principles and concepts, personal fitness, responsible behaviors and physically active lifestyle. The standards in each strand are sequenced to progress in complexity from grade level to grade level.

Physical Education Standards of Learning

Hampton City Schools health education follows the 2020 Health Education Standards of learning.  In health education, students will learn essential health concepts, develop understanding of health information in order to make healthy decisions, and actively advocate for their own health, as well as the health of their peers, families, and communities.
Health Education Standards of Learning

Program Overview

 

The FLE program for students is taught by health and physical education teachers. Students in elementary grades K-3 focus on family, safety, and in 4th and 5th, puberty.  In grades 6-10, students are taught that abstinence from sexual activity is the only way to guarantee the prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. The family life education unit includes instruction on anatomy, abuse, internet predation, and healthy dating relationships.

 

Program Summary by Grade Level

Family Life Education - Parent Letters - Sensitive Topics

The Driver Education Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools provides the framework for the Curriculum Guide for Driver Education in Virginia, which defines the skills and competencies necessary to become a proficient user of the highway transportation system. As prescribed by §22.1-205 of the Code of Virginia, the curriculum guide serves as the Board of Education’s approved program of study for public, private, and commercial driver training school programs. Public and private school driver education programs are approved by the Board of Education, and commercial driver training schools are approved and licensed by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles.

 

The Driver Education Standards of Learning focus on core concepts and procedures and set clear, concise, and measurable expectations for novice drivers.  The standards, which have been refined through public hearings and numerous rounds of feedback from parents, teachers, administrators, and representatives from higher education, are informed by teachers’ experience, content experts, research and national standards.  Parents are encouraged to work with their children to help them achieve these standards. Virginia Standards of Learning for Driver Education

 

Getting your driving license is an exciting new adventure, especially for a teenager. With the new license comes new-found freedom. However, driving privileges also come with great responsibility. To become a safe licensed driver, our students are required to follow a path of education and practice to prepare for the tasks ahead. The driver education theory course is offered as part of the tenth grade health education curriculum in all high schools during the first semester. When the classroom theory phase has been passed, the student will receive the green DEC-1 card.

 

When the student reaches the age of 15 years and 6 months, they can go to the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and take the learner's permit test. When the student has both the green card and learner's permit, they may apply for Behind-the-Wheel instruction here. The fee for Behind-the-Wheel is determined by the amount of state funding and varies from year-to-year..

 

If you need additional information on the Driver Education program, contact: 

• Classroom Instruction:  Samantha Demyanyuk - Curriculum Leader for Health & Wellness Education  (sdemyanyuk@hampton.k12.va.us).

• Behind the Wheel Instruction:  Samantha Demyanyuk - Curriculum Leader for Health & Wellness Education (sdemyanyuk@hampton.k12.va.us) For more information about Behind the Wheel, click here.

Driver Education Standards of Learning